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Nv. 19, 19249. M. R. KENNEDY GAME Filed Feb. 4, 1928 Q t m E 2cd maanwww J t o U INVENTOR.

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Patented Nov. 19, 19,29;

UNITED STATES MARSHALL R. KENNEDY, OF SAN FRANQISCO, CALIFORNIA GAMEApplication led February 4,- 1928. Serial No'. 251,905.

This invention relates to improvements in games and has particularreference to a football game.

The principal object of this invention is to produce a game boardwherein all the movements of a football game may be followed.

A further object is to produce a game board which may be economicallymanufactured.

Astill further object is to produce a game board which will beinstructive in the game thereby teaching the rudiments of the game.

Other objects and advantages will be apparent during the course of thefollowing description. In the accompanying drawings forming a part ofthis specifications and in which like numerals are employed to designatelike parts throughout the same,

Figure 1 is a to plan View of a game board constructed 1n accordancewith my invention,

Figure 2 is a side elevation of Figure 1, and

Figure 3 is an end elevation of Figure l.

Applicant is aware of the face that various game boards have beencreated for the purpose of simulating the football game. These boards inmost instances merely represented a football grid over which playingpieces were moved to indicate various plays. It has also been common toemploy charts which represent a football grid and to mark upon the chartthe various plays as the same were performed by given teams. Of late itis quite common to radio broadcast important football games and in orderto keep accurate tract of the play, the listener often employs a chartwith the result that when the announcer states that a thirty-seven yardrun has been made, the listener must figure up on his chart wherethirty-seven yards would be from the point upon where the ball lastrested. This often takes a great length of time so that the followingplay bein@r made by the team and being announced by the broadcaster islost to the listener.

Applicant has therefore devised a board wherein the listener at a glancecan tell eX- actly where the ball should be moved to and then move theball to the designated spot Without stopping to figure by either addingor subtractingthe number of `yards the ball is to be moved. j y

In the accompanying drawings wherein for the purpose of illustration isshown a preferred embodiment of my invention, the numeral v 5 designatesa base board upon which is secured a chart comprising sections 6, 7, 8and 9. This. chart is -preferably cemented or otherwise secured to thebase board 5 and carries the necessary indicia for the playing of thegame.

It will be noted that'the sections 6 and 7 and the sections 8l and 9 areseparated from each other so as to provide runways 11 and 12respectively. These runways serve to accommodate a slider 13 whichslider designates the yard marker. It will also be noted that thesections7 and 8 are spaced apart and at the same time theyy overlie a`recess-14 formed in the board 5. This .results in a T- shaped slot inwhich a slide rule 16 is positioned. This slide rule carries a fieldpiece 17 upon which a miniature ball 18 is secured.

Marked upon the surface of `the Slide rule 16 is indicia reading fromvthe field piece '1,5 toward each end of the slide rule. The indiciacarrie-d on the sections 6 and 9 are so arranged that they read from thegoal lines toward the centerof the field. This results in the readingsat the sides of the field being opposite to the readings upon the sliderule.

In order to follow a play-upon the board we will assume that the ball isat the forty yard line on the A portion of the field and that a run oftwenty-five yards is made toward the B side of the field. By lookingupon the slide rule to the B side of the field it will immediately beseen that a twenty-five yard run would place the ball upon thethirtyfive yard line of B side, or if the run had been forty yards, theball would be upon the twenty yard line of the B side. By now moving theslide rule so that the ball is moved twenty-five yards or forty yards asthe case may be, the next successive movement of the ball can be easilymade by again observing on the slide rule the number of yards the ballis to be moved either to one side of the field or the other.

It will thus be seen that I have produced 10.0

a game board which will accomplish all of the objects above set forth.

It is to be understood that the form of my invention herewith shown anddescribed is to be taken as a preferred example of the same and thatvarious changes relative to the material, size, shape and arrangement ofparts may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of theinvention or the scope of the subjoined claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim 1. In a game board, a basehaving numerical indicia position thereon, a slide rule positioned onsaid board,numerical indicia carriedl by said slide rule, the indicia onsaid slide rule being oppositely disposed from that on said game board.

2. In a game board of the character described, a base, an indiciabearing element positioned on said base, said indicia element eingdivided, a slide rule positioned between two of the sections of saidindicia bearing element, the indicia on said slide rule being oppositelydisposed from the indicia bearing elementfor the purpose specified.

3. In a game board, a base, indicia bearing element positioned on saidbase and spaced one from the other, a slide rule adapted to bepositioned between two of said indicia bearing elements, a field piecesecured to said slide rule, a marker adapted to be slidably positionedbetween said indicia bearing members at a point remote from said sliderule.

4. In a game board, a base, indicia bearing elements positioned on saidbase and spaced one from the other, a slide rule adapted to bepositioned between two of said indicia bearing elements, a field piecesecured to said slide rule, indicia formed on said slide rule, indiciaon said slide rule reading in opposite directions from said field piece,markers adapted to be slidably positioned between certain of saidindicia bearing members and at a. point remote from said slide rule.

IIn testimony whereof I aix my signature. f MARSHALL R. KENNEDY.

